Tag: racket
Macedonia 23.04.22 | 10:08

SDSM to explain for whom Zekiri stole, where the money from the racket ended up, according to Jovanovski, it went to Vice and Zoran Zaev

It is time for SDSM to stop with empty phrases and explain to the public about all the crimes committed by their officials, said VMRO-DPMNE. It is time to have an answer and responsibility how did oil disappear from cannabis factories, which is ownership share of the Zaev family in the marijuana factories...

Macedonia 20.03.22 | 11:06

Independent prosecutors would immediately investigate Zoran Zaev, VMRO-DPMNE says after the revelations of the second Racket trial

The entire public heard how Zoran Zaev is involved in the Racket scandal, but the prosecutors won’t dare investigate him, said the VMRO-DPMNE party following the closing statements in the trial. Key defendant Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 directly pointed to Zaev as the main culprit in the large...

Macedonia 25.02.22 | 15:57

Racket trial: Court refused to admit evidence that points to Zoran Zaev’s corruption

The Skopje court refused today to accept all evidence proposed by the defense team representing Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 in the second Racket trial. Boki 13 is defending himself by releasing evidence that former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was the actual key culprit in the racketeering ring that...

Macedonia 03.02.22 | 14:41

Arsovski: The Zaev family is the head of the whole racketeering octopus, all persons involved should be held accountable

Answering a reporter’s question regarding the letter and the communication made public on Wednesday by the accused and convicted in the “Racket” case, Bojan Jovanovski, VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimce Arsovski, said that after all that it is clear that the head of the whole racketeering...

Macedonia 05.01.22 | 09:50

VMRO-DPMNE: The prosecution is still silent about the scandalous claims that Zaev is the head of the racket that influenced the judicial bodies

Another testimony that Zoran Zaev is capo di tutti capi in the racketeering in Macedonia, and the prosecution does not lift a finger. Mile Jovanovski publicly confirmed that all the money from the racket ended up with Zoran and Vice Zaev, and Ruskovska and the prosecution continue to be silent, said...

Macedonia 03.01.22 | 21:38

Boki 13’s father says that Zoran Zaev was behind the Racket extortion ring

Mile Jovanovski, father of showman and Racket scandal defendant Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, repeated his son’s claims that the chief organizer of the major extortion ring is outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Prosecutors did not dare investigate Zaev in relation to the scandal, even though...

Macedonia 02.01.22 | 15:11

Katica Janeva released from prison to spend the holidays with her family

Disgraced former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva was released from prison to spend the New Year holidays with her family. Her lawyer Irena Frckoska said that Janeva has the right to request this after she served a third of her 7 years prison sentence. Janeva was sentenced for extortion and racketeering...

Macedonia 16.11.21 | 21:09

The next Racket trial hearing could finally open Boki 13’s Pandora Box

A hearing in the second Racket trial scheduled for Friday could finally open the door on the phone used by key defendant Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13. After being sentenced to nine years in prison for extortion in the first Racket trial, Boki 13 said what many suspected – that Prime Minister...

Macedonia 04.11.21 | 22:36

VMRO-DPMNE: Zaevism turned the party racket into a state racket led by NSA and prosecution structures

VMRO-DPMNE reacts that it is a huge scandal that NSA investigators racketed businessmen. The question is why NSA employees cooperated with the criminal underworld in racketeering? The Zaevism and the people in power turned the party racket we saw with Katica Janeva into a state racket this time with...

Macedonia 27.08.21 | 15:11

Boki 13 contracted Covid-19 in prison

Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13, the key defendant in the major Racket scandal, has been infected with coronavirus while in prison. Boki 13 is sentenced to nine years in prison, and is charged in a second trial, over using his connections to the ruling SDSM party to extort money from businessmen. Jovanovski’s...

Macedonia 19.08.21 | 17:08

Kamcev: I’m being prosecuted because of the revelations I made in the Racket scandal

The trials against me are revenge for the Racket scandal, said detained businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev during the hearing in the Skopje court today. Kamcev faces several charges initiated by prosecutors loyal to the Zaev regime against him, and has been detained since March. In 2019, he broke wide open...

Macedonia 02.06.21 | 16:01

A cause that ended up as a racket

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. This observation by philosopher Eric Hoffer applies to the Colored Revolution in Macedonia both figuratively and literally. What was started ostensibly as a movement for justice and the rule of law is...

Macedonia 27.05.21 | 14:58

VMRO-DPMNE hands over documents of Vice Zaev’s racket to the prosecution – Here is a chance for Ruskovska to refresh her memory

We have received documents with suspicions and indications of a huge crime with public contracts in REK Bitola during Vasko Kovacevski’s term in office, and indicate pressure and threats on businessmen Vasko Vasilev and Jani Radivcev, owners of Rubiton, to give away the mining contract which they...

Macedonia 27.05.21 | 11:49

SDSM should condemn Vice Zaev for the racket, now it just looks like a private company of the Zaev family

The very fact that SDSM is a spokesperson for a character like Vice Zaev, shows that that party has been turned into a private company of the Zaev family. Instead of copying Vice Zaev’s statements, SDSM should distance itself from him. The crime committed in REK Bitola is obvious, reacts VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 26.05.21 | 14:49

The court did not allow Zaev’s statement about Boki’s project as evidence, only a photo of them together

The court did not accept as evidence the statement of Zoran Zaev in which he talks about the project for construction of retirement homes contained in Boki 13’s USB. Only the photo of Boki and Zaev with comment below is acceptable to the court. The court accepted only partially the evidence referring...

Macedonia 20.05.21 | 13:07

Zaev tries to ignore latest evidence linking him to the Racket scandal

The office of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev remains silent a day after the defense attorney of his former friend Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 announced it will produce audio tapes and screenshots of their conversations implicating Zaev in the Racket scandal. In a week the court will decide whether it...

Macedonia 29.04.21 | 09:14

As long as there is no investigation that the money from the racket ended up with Zaev, we will have negative reports on crime and corruption

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party said in Thursday’s press release that Zaev’s government has experienced a total debacle in the fight against corruption. The GRECO report is an indication that we are not moving from a standstill, on the contrary we are still sinking. Of the 23 recommendations...

Macedonia 26.03.21 | 15:41

One of the defendants in the Racket scandal calls out Minister Mila Carovska for her role in the extortion scheme

SDSM party official Frosina Remenski, who is the only party official charged for her role in the Racket scandal, called out Education Minister Mila Carovska, after details about her own involvement became known to the public. Carovska was named by a key witness in the on-going, second Racket trial. As...

Macedonia 19.02.21 | 20:29

Nikoloski on the Racket scandal: Even small children know that the high level racketeering can’t be conducted without involvement of top Government officials

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski is confident that he will win the defamation suit filed against him by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, after Nikoloski claimed that the Racket scandal is much bigger than the extent investigated by prosecutors, and that it involves Zaev. Zaev is suing me that...

Macedonia 13.02.21 | 19:00

Nikoloski: After the “Raket” affair there is no president or prime minister who wants to meet with Zaev

After the “Racket” affair, there is no prime minister or president who wants to meet with Zoran Zaev, the vice president of VMRO DPMNE, Aleksandar Nikoloski, said last night on Alsat’s “360 Degrees” show. Why doesn’t Zoran Zaev travel? Zaev persistently avoids answering...

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